When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
AKBAR GANJIIn Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.
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There’s all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.
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Religion is separate from the institution of the state.
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The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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We believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right.
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Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan.
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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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